Irene Claremont de Castillejo Quotes (2 Quotes)

Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body.

A woman today lives in perpetual conflict. She cannot slay the dragon of the unconscious without severing her own essential contact with it without in fact destroying her feminine strength and becoming a mere pseudo-man. Her task is a peculiarly difficult one. She needs the focused consciousness her animus alone can give her, yet she must not forsake her womans role of mediator to man. Through a woman, man finds his soul. She must never forget this. Through a woman, not through a pseudo-man. Through man, woman finds the animus who can express the soul she has never lost. Her burning need is to trust her own diffuse awareness, to know what she knows and to learn to speak of it, for until it is expressed she does not wholly know it.